What makes Vietnam so different is the dodging anti-war disaster.

ADVANTAGES

Americans were on high alert and fear throughout the 1960's, especially in 1962 after the Cuban Missile Crisis, so why did America become involved in another war?CommunismShockingly enough, an official congressional declaration of war against North Vietnam was actually never declared by America, but is still credited as a War.Eventually, the two regions became one again and was called Indochina.

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IMAGINATIVE REPRESENTATIONSOF THE VIETNAM WAR

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The end of the Korean War made it possible for the communists to start shipping enormous amounts of weapons and other war materials to the communist forces in Vietnam.

Lessons Of The Vietnam War: An Interview With Noam Chomsky

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As anti-war sentiment mounted on the home front, some of Johnson’s advisers that had supported past military buildup in Vietnam (including soon-to-be Secretary of Defense ) now argued for scaling back U.S. involvement.

MILITARY POLICE OF THE VIETNAM WAR

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In October Nixon announces a plan for a cease fire and announces that a further 40,000 American troops will be withdrawn from South Vietnam by the end of the year. As a result of all the turmoil, pressure, and disillusionment concerning the war, legislation is passed which denies the administration funds for the introduction of ground combat troops into Laos or Thailand but does not include a proposed ban on further operations elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

MUSIC OF THE VIETNAM WAR ERA |

Contrary to popular belief, and a whole lot of wishful thinking by a crowd tens of millions strong thats made up of mostly draft dodgers and their antiwar cronies, along with their families / supporters, it was not a military defeat that brought misfortune to the American effort in Vietnam.

OVERCOMING THE LEGACYOF THE VIETNAM WAR

In April as part of a massive antiwar demonstration in Washington, Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) and Gold Star Mothers for Peace (representing mothers who lost sons in combat) attempt to place a memorial wreath at Arlington National Cemetary. The Nixon Administration denies them entrance to the grounds. Later VVAW stages “Operation Dewey Canyon III, during which 800 veterans throw medals and ribbons on to the steps of the Capitol building.”

PURPLE HEART REGISTRYOF THE VIETNAM WAR

Later in May, President Nixon announces a series of large scale bombing raids on North Vietnam; some raids consist of up to 120 warplanes. It is the first significant attack since his predecessor, President Johnson declared a bombing halt in the fall of 1968.

TET OFFENSIVE:A TURNING POINT IN THE VIETNAM WAR

In June the New York Times begins publishing The Pentagon Papers, a top secret Pentagon history of the Vietnam War dating back to 1945, that reveals numerous lies and deceptions told to the American public.

VETERANS OF THE VIETNAM WAR POST 11 MADISON, INDIANA

In March events in neighboring Cambodia come to the foreground. Prince Norodom Sihanouk is overthrown by a military junta led by Lon Nol, which is more pro- U.S. This prepares the ground for a U.S. invasion of the border area at the end of the month. On April 29 MACV announces the invasion of Cambodia by U.S. and ARVN forces to seek out North Vietnamese bases. The consequences of this initiate a general state of revolution and war in Cambodia which eventually results in the death of over 2 ½ million people at the hands of the Khmer Rouge under the direction of Pol Pot.